NEW YORK, NY.- “C1760”, a transformational gallery spanning Modern and Contemporary, Ancient and Old Master—launched by Colnaghi Gallery Ltd. New York — announces the exhibition Influences of Time at 38 E 70th Street New York. The exhibition presents a unique survey of works investigating the interplay of geometry and time. The collection juxtaposes various works in different media spanning over 150 years. Beginning with the design innovations of Toulouse-Lautrec, moving into the Constructivists, following through to Philip Guston and renowned minimalists like Sol LeWitt and Yves Klein, the timeline concludes with Maria Kreyn, the youngest living artist in the exhibition, who was asked by the gallery to create a special work for Influences of Time.

The artists represented in Influences of Time can be linked to Swiss art historian Heinrich Wolfflin’s universal theory of “history of art without names” (Kunstgeschichte ohne Namen). This show explores artists’ reactions to the often drastic and turbulent changes of their time: physical barriers between countries, cultures, and people as well as innovative technology and the exploration of epistemology and perception. We see how these works, individually and in concert, act as drivers for change in society, inciting “demand for culture.”

As it enters the world, art speaks of the time of its making and the time of its maker, also marking the climate of its own making. The intention of the artist and the apprehension by the viewer, which is influenced by their own entrance into their own time, makes for an exciting and varied perspective. Though there are timeless threads, we always see from our unique point of entry. We can follow the many trajectories that characterize a very rich heritage, one that shows no signs of fatigue or exhaustion. Influences of Time surveys and celebrates these diverging paths and intentions - both aesthetic and political. These intentions speak to and weave through each other, with Time their central theme.

The definition of art in the most basic of terms is that art is the physical expression byman/woman of his/her time in culture/society. It is visual philosophy and can take many forms.

Most art is political in its nature in some aspect as it marks the climate of its own making.

But these extremes do not define the limits of twentieth century art, just as the works of the artists represented do not define the limits of painting, collage, performance art, and installation art. There is always more to find and to search out, especially as the artists find their different ways through their own present and past cultural background as well as those of other countries through which they have traveled or in which they have settled. We can follow the many trajectories that characterize what is a very rich heritage, one that shows no signs of fatigue or exhaustion.

After a decade of focusing primarily on the figure, Maria Kreyn experiments in zooming out with her storm paintings. They aim to observe the human condition from the vantage point of planetary weather. Perhaps the logic and even physics of our emotions follow the same physics as smoke and storms — all dynamical systems that are at once organized and chaotic.

Artists: Alexander Kosolapov, Alexander Ney, Andy Warhol, Barry Le Va, Kliment Red’ko, Constantin Brancusi, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Eduard Steinberg, Ely Bielutin, Ernst Neizvestny, George Grosz, Georges Braque, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Klutsis, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ivan Kliun, Ivan Puni, Karel Appel, Komar and Melamid, Lidiya Masterkova, Lucio Pozzi, Maria Kreyn, Marie Vorobieff, Mark Tobey, Markus Lüpertz, Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Nikolai Tolkunov, Nikolai Suetin, Peter Halley, Pyotr Belenok, Philip Guston, Robert Mangold, Rosalia Rabinovich, Rostislav Lebedev, Samuil Adlivankin, Serge Charchoune, Sergei Volokhov, Sol LeWitt, Vasily Sitnikov, Vladimir Bekhterev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, William Brui, Yves Klein, and Ülo Sooster.

Also on view will be a selection of highlights from our previous exhibition, Alviani X Ancient, which features a dazzling display of abstract art and jewelry by Italian artist Getulio Alviani (1939-2018), a key figure in Zero, and Optical, in dialogue with antiquities from three millennia.